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Perfect storm of errors, neglect in Brazil fire

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:33 PM PST

A police officer places flowers outside the Kiss nightclub that were brought by mourners in memory of those who died due to a fire at the club in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A fast-moving fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in this southern Brazilian city early Sunday, killing more than 230 people. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors. (AP Photo/Nabor Goulart)There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria.

Photos: Artist creates stunning snowscapes

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:16 PM PST

Photos: Artist creates stunning snowscapes

Boy Scouts consider end to gay ban

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

File photograph of an Eagle Scout patchThe new policy would eliminate the ban on gays from its national rules, allowing local chapters to decide for themselves.

Mom suffers diabetic attack while driving

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:28 AM PST

Girl Saves Mom During Diabetic Attack (ABC News)This is not the first time Aleksandra has come to her mom's aid when she had low blood sugar.

Obama turns to police chiefs for help on guns

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 11:11 AM PST

President Barack Obama meets with representatives from Major Cities Chiefs Association and Major County Sheriffs Association in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Washington, to discuss policies put forward by President Obama to reduce gun violence. From left are U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau and Hennepin County Minnesota Sheriff Richard W. Stanek . (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president hopes law-enforcement officials can convince Congress to pass new gun laws.

Double-arm transplant for soldier who lost 4 limbs

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:37 AM PST

FILE - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., left, Marine Cpl. Todd Love of Atlanta, Ga., center, and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez of Deming, N.M., pose for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. His father, Alex Marrocco, said Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 that his son had the operation on Dec. 18, 2012 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)The first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant.

'Tough but fair' immigration reform plan

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 10:20 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, Jerod Jaramillo, 12, right, and Jose Villaneda carry signs and march during an immigration law protest in front of city hall in Farmers Branch, Texas. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday, March 21, 2012, that the ordinance passed by Farmers Branch in 2008 overstepped the town's authority, upholding a lower court ruling stopping a ban on illegal immigrants seeking housing. The law called on the city's building inspector to check the immigration status of anyone wanting to rent an apartment who wasn't a U.S. citizen. (AP Photo/L.M. Otero, File)The details will be unveiled at a live press conference at 2:30 pm ET.

Photos: Remembering the Challenger disaster

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:47 AM PST

Photos: Remembering the Challenger disasterFILE--File picture from January 28, 1986, shows the explosion of space shuttle Challenger over Cap Canaveral/Florida. The space shuttle with seven astronauts onboard explodet 74 seconds after launch in 16 km height. All occupants were killed. (AP Photo/handout)

Australian radio show behind royal hoax canceled

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 09:31 AM PST

SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian radio show behind a hoax phone call to the London hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was being treated has been officially canceled.

Video: Truck overturns, narrowly missing motorcyclist

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:57 AM PST

In what appears to be a terrifying brush with death, a motorcyclist stopped at an intersection in eastern China narrowly missed being flattened by a truck that overturned. According to RT.com, the accident—caught on video by surveillance cameras—occurred on Jan. 22 in Xushi Village in the city of Linhai, Zhejiang Province. The heart-stopping footage shows [...]

Bride, check. Wedding band, check. Groom, TBA

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:40 AM PST

Kate Owens had planned the perfect wedding, from the dress to the flowers and even the band. The only thing missing?

Shapiro: 'Liberal' label doesn't cut it for Obama

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 08:07 AM PST

U.S. President Obama winks as he arrives for remarks after the House of Representatives acted on legislation intended to avoid the The liberalism of Obama in the personal sphere has been tempered by the centrism of Obama in the economic and foreign-policy realm.

Chris Brown investigated for possible assault of Frank Ocean

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:50 AM PST

FILE - This Oct. 20, 2011 file photo shows Chris Brown performs live as part of the F.A.M.E Tour at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. Brown is under investigation for an alleged assault in a West Hollywood parking lot, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said early Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Deputies responding to a report of six men fighting Sunday night found the scene clear, but were told by witnesses that there had been a brief fight over a parking space. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, file)"Got jumped by Chris and a couple guys," Ocean tweeted.

Secret Service dog dies while serving

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:16 AM PST

DogA Secret Service dog fell to its death in New Orleans over the weekend while performing a sweep of a six-story parking garage. The garage was next to a Ritz Carlton where Vice President Joe Biden was speaking.

Explanations differ for terrifying plane engine video

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:26 AM PST

The airline says the plane was struck by lightning, but experts say that's not possible.

North Koreans reportedly turn to cannibalism due to 'hidden famine'

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:09 AM PST

News out of North Korean in notorious unreliable, but food shortages in the country have gotten so bad and people so desperate that there are now reports of men murdering their own children for food. These startling reports were compiled by independent reporters commissioned by Asia Press, a independent press agency focusing on Asia, and were published by the Sunday Times. And here's one of the most disturbing thing you'll read this morning: 

Funerals begin for 233 killed in Brazil club blaze

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 05:04 AM PST

ADDS FACT THAT THE WOMAN WAS GIRLFRIEND OF THE VICTIM.- A woman cries over the coffin of her boyfriend at a gymnasium where bodies were brought for identification in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. They were both at the Kiss nightclub when flames raced through the crowded club in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. (AP Photo/Nabor Goulart)"We had to use trucks to remove them. It took about six hours to take the bodies away," a policeman said.

What sank a Confederate submarine?

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:32 AM PST

FILE - The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sits in a conservation tank after a steel truss that had surrounded it was removed in this Jan. 12, 2012 file photo taken at a conservation lab in North Charleston, S.C. Scientists say a pole on the front of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley designed to plant explosives on enemy ships may hold a key clue to its sinking during the Civil War. The experts are to release their findings Monday Jan. 28, 2013 at the North Charleston lab where the hand-cranked sub is being preserved and studied. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)Scientists say a pole on the front of the H.L. Hunley is a clue.

Priceless manscripts burned by Islamist rebels in Mali

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:16 AM PST

"The rebels sit fire to the newly-constructed Ahmed Baba Institute built by the South Africans ... this happened four days ago," Timbuktu's mayor said.

Iran successfully launches monkey into space-report

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 04:00 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has successfully launched a live monkey into space, the Fars news agency reported on Monday, lauding it as an advance in a missile and space program that has alarmed the West and Israel. There was no independent confirmation of the report and there have been no announcements by Western powers of any Iranian launch late last week. Fars said the monkey was launched into space on a Kavoshgar rocket. The rocket reached a height of more than 120 kilometers and "returned its shipment intact", Fars reported. ...

Over party lines: The plan for immigration

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 03:43 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at the Newseum in Washington. In an opinion piece published Sunday Jan. 27, 2013 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rubio wrote that the existing system amounts to The plan has path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants.

Iran denies explosion at underground uranium facility

Posted: 28 Jan 2013 01:44 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has denied media reports of a major explosion at one of its uranium enrichment sites, describing them as "Western propaganda" designed to influence upcoming nuclear negotiations. Reuters has been unable to verify reports since Friday of an explosion at the underground Fordow bunker, near the religious city of Qom, that some Israeli and Western media have said caused significant damage. ...

‘Argo’ rises, ‘Lincoln’ fades at SAG Awards

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 11:03 PM PST

Ben Affleck holds the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for Ben Affleck's sharp period political thriller upstages Steven Speilberg's presidential biopic and is now the Oscar frontrunner for best picture.

Senators reach deal on immigration overhaul

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 09:42 PM PST

U.S. Capitol Building stands in WashingtonA bipartisan group of senators agrees on a framework for sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws.

Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives

Posted: 27 Jan 2013 08:54 PM PST

In this Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 photo, Shawn Georgetti climbs out of his John Deere tractor on his 167-acre family dairy farm in Avella, Pa. With royalties from a Range Resources gas well on his property, Georgetti has been able to buy newer farm equipment that's bigger, faster, and more fuel-efficient. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming lives and livelihoods even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.
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